And then they try to fix it by spending even more on the next title.
I don't get it.
It has resulted in some fantastic, well-selling games, but it was never going to reach the universal "literally everyone is playing this" level they seem to keep thinking will happen "any second now".
Sony?
Final Fantasy is owned by Square Enix.
I suspect Sony pays them very little for the timed exclusivity, still that does help.
But the mismanagement I'm referring to is less to do with the platform availability (though that doesn't help) as it is with Squenixes habit of consistently over-estimating final sales, and thereby overspending on development and scope.
Squenix did it with Tomb Raider, they did it with Deux Ex, and then axed the franchises entirely because they "failed to meet sales projections". They still sold like hell, but "underperformed" because Squenix had completely bonkers expectations, and thereby also spent way more than warranted.
The marketing budget for Shadow of the Tomb Raider was apparently more than a third of what they paid for development, and even the development cost was questionable.
The exact same pattern is happening with Final Fantasy, where they try to fix waning sales by going bigger and bigger, instead of more efficient and consistent. I hope they wise up before they axe FF, too.
Intergrade is an increbile game. I loved it.
Squenix is still missmanaging the shit out of their franchises, and I will be waiting for Rebirth to be discounted and on PC.
Waited for the PC version of Intergrade, and then a sale. It was absolutley fantastic IMO. But I will still do the same with Rebirth.
Squenix keeps trying to spend more to get more, and it never fucking works.
It's always "our titles are performing below expectations and we will be forced to axe the project" when the whole reason things are going south is that they somehow thought there was a market to make hundreds of millions, then spend accordingly.
And when fans aren't interested in buying one game three times for full price:
Rebirth didn't need to be bigger and better than Intergrade. It just needed to be the same quality level (which was excellent, now with Rebirth its overshooting the sweet spot by a mile) and cost less than full-price.
What? Squenix overspending still didn't result in proportianlly higher sales?
No way! But surely, next time it'll work!
If youre unfamiliar, squenix keeps upping the budget when they get "hits" expecting the return to scale. Then when it doesn't, they use it as en excuse to abandon the franchise.
They did it with Tomb Raider. They did it with the new Deus Ex games. I really really don't want them to do it Final Fantasy, as I really enjoy the modern games.
Yes and no.
Pending means the sub hasn't gone through to the home instance of the community. If you're the first subscriber, this means the there will be no inbound federation bringing the content from that community to your instance.
If someone else on your instance has already successfully subbed, the federating is already occurring, and your instance will be receiving the activity as it comes in.
Your instance will then show it to you, both in your subscriptions and in general, even though the sub is pending.
If your sub stays pending, you may have to unsub and resub to get it to work. If no-one else on your instance has subbed either, then the activity will continue to not show up for as long as it is pending.
This is a very, very bad idea.
SSDs are permanent flash storage, yes, but that doesn't mean you can leave them unpowered for extended periods of time.
Without a refresh, electrons can and do leak out of the charge traps that store the ones and zeroes. Depending on the exact NAND used, the data could start going corrupt within a year or so.
HDDs suffer the same problem, though less so. They can go several years, possibly a decade, but you'd still be risking the data on the drive but letting it sit unpowered for an extended time.
For the "cold storage" approach you should really be using something that's designed to retain data in such conditions, like optical media, or tape drives.
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It's not for everyone, it being a third instead of first person shooter with the complexity of a MOBA.
But goddamn I am obsessed.
And as an older, more chilled out gamer, the toxicity doesn't get to me the way it used to when I played Dota after school every day.
No matter how well or badly a match is going, I'm managing to have fun regardless. I just don't assign the emotional stakes to being the best player in a lobby, or to the matchmaking landing me on a winning team.
At the same time there is an absolute crap-ton of mechanics I enjoy, and I'm up to matchmaking with 9 characters selected. How is every damn aspect of every part of this game this fun?!
I just checked the docs for installation instructions, it didn't seem to make a distinction anymore.
Great. It wasn't too long ago that MariaDb was still the "recommended" option.
Microblizzvision
Start with the cheapest plan.
If you ever find yourself wishing steam installed a game faster, then upgrade to the next best one. See if that feels like enough.
I pay a bit more for 600mbps, but that's because I have a home server which runs services for friends and family. It might be streaming media, be syncing nextcloud data, and uploading a snapshot to off-site backup, all at the same time, and it needs to do that without hiccups for anyone accessing it. Even then it's more than strictly necessary. 350mbps would be VERY fast, and enough.
Along with that comes the ability to install small games basically instantly on my gaming desktop, and big ones in the time it takes me to grab a snack, but even the cheapest speed available would otherwise be more than enough for single-person use.
My siblings and mother live on 10mbps home wifi, and they never even complain.